the massachusetts health plan was the template for the health law. kathleen sebelius was grilled for three hours on capitol hill, she said that the problems would be fixed. i spoke with david merrit about the policy of the affordable care act. >> it was a full throated defense of the affordable care act, and she did a necessary job to go out and try and confront some of the critics and explain what is happening. i found two things somewhat curious, one, she actually said that the website had never crashed which in fact, it had. it even crashed this morning. the second one was that she was apologizing, which she certainly needed to do, and the president did an adequate job of that as well, then she shifted the blame to the contractors. when you're apologizing, you're usually apologizing for something you're responsible for. but she put the responsibility on the contractors. it flies in the face of harry truman's line that the puck stops here. >>> the nation's farm bill has centered on funding the $80 billion a year food stamp program but not passing a